calmabilityEtymologyFrom calm + -ability.nounThe quality of being calmable.“Calmability, capacity for pacification by the mother’s devices, is part of the baby’s capacity to evoke care from a care-giver by actively contributing to the care-giver’s emotional state—making mother feel good, competent, and fulfilled, as opposed to feeling rejected by her own baby, incompetent, and helpless to give the baby the care he demands and needs (42).”